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QUNU, South Africa: Former South African President
Nelson Mandela, fresh from being feted at home and abroad on his
90th birthday, was to host a banquet for the new generation of South
African leaders as well as hundreds of friends. The celebrations
held in rural Eastern cape with a 500 expected guests including
Thabo Mbeki, Jacob Zuma, Desmond Tutu, Mandela’s fellow Nobel
peace prizewinner and former Zambian President Kenneth Kaunda. The
event will give some of his legion of admirers an opportunity to
express their best wishes in the flesh at his homestead in the
village of Qunu.
BAGHDAD: British Prime Minister
Gordon Brown arrived in Baghdad, as an official visit for talks with
his Iraqi counterpart and other leaders in a bid to push economic
rebuilding in the violence-wracked country. Brown is expected to
discuss bilateral relations with the Iraqi leaders and also “study
the future of the British presence in Basra,” in southern Iraq. He
is expected to use his trip to push for reconstruction and
investment in the Iraqi economy.
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